Michael Richardson – after scoring with scorcher last night They have taken 13 points from their 5 games, with the only time they were unable yo win, being the 1-1 draw at Wolves in late August.

Liverpool went ahead in the first half, but then the forgotten man, Nile Ranger, put Newcastle ahead with two quick goals shortly after half time, and then Michael Richardson hit a great third goal from 25 yards out after 57 minutes to put the lads 3-1 up.

Liverpool came back with another goal to make it interesting, but the Newcastle side registered their fourth win in five games in the league, in what was the debut game for Willie Donachie as the Reserve Team manager.

But Liverpool had chances late in the game, and could have so easily come away with a draw on the night.

This is what local lad Michael Richardson told the Newcastle official site after the game:

“It was a decent goal – Nile’s done a good pass across and I’ve had a lot of time to think about it,” “I took a touch and had a look as the defenders didn’t really close me down quickly enough, and I just used the wind and bent it in the corner away from the keeper.”

“When we went 2-1 up I think we were on top; we’d scored two goals, they went a bit down and that third one I thought would have killed them off.”

“But fair play to them, they came back, they got one and they put us under a bit of pressure and maybe should have equalised. I think a draw would have been fair in the end but we’ve done well to get a win and keep our unbeaten record going as well.”

“It’s always good whatever team you’re playing in if you’ve got confidence, and it’s going to help to get results.” “But it’s not always about results for us – we want to play well. For the first 20 minutes of the first half and first 20 minutes of the second half we passed it well and we pressured well, and then I think we died off in both halves.”

“So that could be something we’d look to improve on; concentration and keeping focused. But a win’s a good result for us and we’re very happy with that.”

Former plumber Michael signed on at his local club a year last summer from Walker Central, and late in the season even made a few appearances on the Newcastle bench, during the injury crisis the first team suffered late in the season.

But of course the Newcastle bench is a lot stronger these days, withe seven new players signed over the summer, and at least one more expected in January.

Michael had a loan spell at at Leyton Orient earlier this season, and he may be sent out on loan again, and it was certainly a sweet strike from the red-headed youngster last night.

19 year-old Richardson just wants to keep his head down and keep on improving, wherever he plays:

“I just want to keep pushing on. You’ve got to keep playing the best you can in the Reserves every week to get that chance.

“It’s not just going to come overnight – you have to work at it for weeks and work hard on the training ground to make it all pay off.

“So I’ll keep working hard in training and in the Reserve games to try and impress, and you never know what’ll happen.”

John Carver, Steve Stone and Andy Woodman were all at the game last night, in addition to Donachie, and Tamas Kadar, the Hungarian International defender, captained the Newcastle side.

I hope Ranger does sort his head out and knuckle down. He proved to be a propper handful when he made sub appearances against liverpoo and arsenal last season. Just needs to think before he acts which should come with age.

i do hope things will work out for ranger. i feel like it’s the clubs duty to make any effort to put him on the right track after convincing such a young player to move all across the country. but he has to do his part aswell. the talent is there for all to see.

Its obvious Ranger has talent and will be a good player, but only if he realises what an opportunity he has and stops wasting it by not putting the effort in during training, showing up late, or thinking he’s some gangster.

Still think a loan to a lower league club would do him the world of good and hopefully bring him down to earth.

is kadar usually the captain…? but yet he doesnt seem to be getting a sniff in the first team ? i would have him ahead of perch, in fact i would have played kadar at forest, it was a perfect chance for him.

Was there last night and elliot made four really top class saves and his kicking in bad conditions was terrific, vucic was the class of the pitch without doubt for me, sammy did some good runs, richardson scored a terrific goal and abeid was spraying some lovely balls all over the pitch but we have a reserve goalie who looks a real find.

health update

I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in February 2017 and completed four months of chemotherapy in late July and will continue to have hormone treatment.

After having various cat scans and a full bone scan recently, I met with the medical oncologist yesterday for a review of my condition.

The cancer in the bones has stabilized and has not spread further, and my PSA count has decreased significantly to being less than 0.1.

I am still recovering from some of the side effects of the chemo treatment - mainly severe fatigue and exhaustion.

Stage 4 cancer is not curable so I will continue to have cat scans and bone scans every four months to ensure the disease is not spreading.

Hopefully, the hormone treatment will keep working for a while yet and then we will switch to some other treatments that have been developed over the last few years.

It is as it is - I accept it - and will do the very best I can under the circumstances.

Ed Harrison

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